Ping-pong diplomacy : the secret history behind the game that changed the world /

Examines how an aristocratic British spy circumvented more than twenty years of antagonistic foreign policy between China and the United States to further a fateful Communist agenda during the World Table Tennis Championships, revealing how players were tortured and murdered throughout the Cultural...

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Main Author: Griffin, Nicholas, 1971- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scribner, [2014]
Edition:First Scribner hardcover edition.
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Summary:Examines how an aristocratic British spy circumvented more than twenty years of antagonistic foreign policy between China and the United States to further a fateful Communist agenda during the World Table Tennis Championships, revealing how players were tortured and murdered throughout the Cultural Revolution.
Physical Description:xi, 336 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781451642773
1451642776